Sentences with phrase «public campaign finance program»

The only statewide candidate participating in the pilot public campaign finance program says it's been slow going.

The pilot public campaign financing program was limited to just the state comptroller's race as part of a state budget deal.

The only statewide candidate who is participating in a pilot public campaign finance program in New York says it's been slow going, but Republican candidate for comptroller Bob Antonacci expects to collect enough individual donors to qualify for the state matching funds.

The state's comptroller says he won't be participating in a new pilot public campaign finance program agreed to in the state budget, and government reform groups say they don't blame him.

The ethics package that produced the pilot public campaign finance program for the state comptroller race also included the shuttering of Governor Cuomo's Moreland Act Commission, which was in the midst of probing possible corruption cases.

He also weathered criticism from others on the left for not participating in the state's first public campaign financing program.

The only statewide candidate who is participating in a pilot public campaign finance program says it's been slow going, but Republican candidate for Comptroller Bob Antonacci expects to collect enough individual donors to qualify for the state matching funds.

New York's short - lived public campaign finance program came to a halt Monday when the program's test participant, State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli, said he would not participate in the pilot program because it was unjust.

The budget provision, which first surfaced late Friday, would enact a pilot public campaign finance program limited to the comptroller's office.

But Silver says Supreme Court actions in recent years, including the ruling permitting the formation of the independent Super PACS, have eroded existing public campaign finance programs.

Liberal advocates have suggested in recent weeks that Koppell's challenge could disintegrate if Klein and Gov. Andrew Cuomo are successful in getting the Senate Republicans to agree to a more robust public campaign finance program than the comptroller - only pilot included in the 2014 - 15 budget.

Ganim was back in federal court on Wednesday seeking to overturn a decision by the State Elections Enforcement Commission that his conviction makes him ineligible for the state's generous public campaign finance program.

The New York State Comptroller says he won't be participating in a new pilot public campaign finance program agreed to in the state budget, and government reform groups say, they don't blame him.

The ethics package that produced the pilot public campaign finance program for the state comptroller race also included the shuttering of Cuomo's Moreland Act Commission, which was in the midst of probing possible corruption cases.

Mr. Lamont is not participating in the state's first public campaign financing program, to the chagrin of his 2006 campaign manager, Tom Swan, who is now the executive director of Connecticut Citizen Action Group.

He's the lone participant in the PILOT public campaign financing program agreed to by legislative leaders and Cuomo, but so far has failed meet the threshold of $ 200,000 raised, and therefore hasn't qualified for matching funds.

An immediate task for Stewart wil be to raise the $ 250,000 in small donations needed to qualify for the state's public campaign financing program.

This week saw the publication of several editorials calling on Gov. Cuomo to maintain his commitment to creating a public campaign finance program in New York state, beginning with a Sunday New York Times editorial that cut to the heart of the matter: «There is no mystery -LSB-...]

The pilot public campaign financing program, limited to just the state Comptroller's race as part of a state budget deal.

Both sides have accused the other of circumventing or violating the spirit of Connecticut's public campaign finance program, which was intended to lessen the influence of special interest dollars on elections.

«The mayor is expected to spend $ 80 million of his own money in the race, more than 10 times what candidates who have not opted out of the city's public campaign finance program, as Mr. Bloomberg has, can spend in a primary,» Weiner wrote in The Times piece.

Under the city's public campaign finance program, qualified candidates have individual local contributions matched 6 to 1.

«The mayor is expected to spend $ 80 million of his own money in the race, more than 10 times what candidates who have not opted out of the city's public campaign finance program, as Mr. Bloomberg has, can spend in a primary,» Weiner wrote last year to explain his decision to drop out.

«I am profoundly disappointed that legislative Democrats would turn aside, through budget cuts, the public campaign financing program many of us worked so hard to put in place to prevent political corruption scandals,» Rell said in a statement released by her son, Michael.

Last Friday, the NYC Campaign Finance Board published the names of candidates who have registered to participate in the public campaign finance program in their runs for City Council.

Former Republican Gov. Jodi Rell, who signed the clean - elections program into law in 2005, said she was «profoundly disappointed that legislative Democrats would turn aside, through budget cuts, the public campaign financing program many of us worked so hard to put in place to prevent political corruption scandals.»

As an ex-felon, Ganim has an added disadvantage because he's not allowed to have access to the state's public campaign financing program to help fund his campaign.

Bill Mahoney of NY PIRG writes in Wednesday's Times Union that in order for a public campaign financing program to succeed in New York state, it must be accompanied by an overhaul of the state's current ineffective system.

I found that curious, especially since the governor reiterated his support for both campaign finance reform and a public campaign finance program in his State of the State address earlier this year.

The first is raising $ 250,000 in donations of $ 100 or less to qualify for the state's public campaign financing program.

When asked if he planned to register with the NYC Campaign Finance Board, Duran wrote that he was undecided about participating in the public campaign finance program (where donations up to $ 175 from city residents are matched 6 - 1 with taxpayer dollars).

Mr. Massey, who has lent himself more than $ 2.7 million so far and has already paid some of it back, is not participating in the city's public campaign finance program, which offers a six - to - one match for the first $ 175 from each donor.